construction in the Altdorf/Erstfeld area is of central significance. In close collaboration with the Canton of Uri, AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd has found a solution. The Uri 2006 planning project for the section [...] Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications (DETEC) approved the plans for the southern section of the NRLA Altdorf/Erstfeld project. The project comprises approximately eight kilometres of base tunnel [...] Ltd agreed to collaborate closely on defining the still missing plans for the Uri 2006 project north of kilometre 98.2. The Uri 2006 planning project is now being opened to public inspection from April 24
contract for the Erstfeld tunnel construction lot (Lot 151) is causing delay. Assembly of the tunnel boring machine will therefore not have started by the date of the planned open day. It is planned to hold open [...] deep shaft and the expectations of many visitors can therefore not be fulfilled. The planned open day on the Erstfeld construction site that was scheduled for Saturday, October 21, 2006, will also not take [...] The open day on the Sedrun construction site of AlpTransit Gotthard Ltd planned for Saturday, June 10, 2006, will not take place. The open day has been cancelled because safety and constructional cons
Company and the Canton of Uri had jointly planned an information and visitor centre by the north portal of the Gotthard Base Tunnel at Erstfeld. First steps of the planning process were already initiated in spring [...] NRLA at Erstfeld on foot, and guided tours below ground will also be offered. The visitor centre at Erstfeld will be built and operated by The AlpTransit Gotthard Company. Construction is planned to start [...] AlpTransit Gotthard Company will also be opened by the north portal of the Gotthard Base Tunnel at Erstfeld. An exhibition area of some 400 square metres will provide information about construction of the
Placement of a boulder of Erstfeld gneiss weighing more than four tonnes by the future north portal at Erstfeld marked the start of work on the last section of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on July 19, 2004 [...] and optimism. The challenges must be tackled in a spirit of cooperation. Work will now start at Erstfeld on preparations for the installations site. Subsequently, a temporary diversion of the Gotthard [...] the main Swiss Federal Railways line will be built. The award of contracts for work on Lot 151 at Erstfeld is expected to take place in summer 2005. The contracts will be for construction of two parallel
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Tunnel Boring Machine Gabi 2 broke through the last metres of rock between Erstfeld and Amsteg. Breakthrough in the east tunnel already took place on June 16, 2009. Breakthrough of [...] kilometres in only 18 months, the tunnel boring machine arrived in Amsteg half a year earlier than planned. Breakthrough in the east tunnel was also attained by the tunnel constructors six months ahead of
programme of entertainment with local and national artists. Performances are planned of the Erstfeld Folk Dance & Song Group, the Erstfeld Young Music Group, the Gemsstock Trio, the Feensturm Group, and the singer [...] in the Erstfeld-Amsteg section will be complete, and both single-track tunnels will be ready for installation of the railway infrastructure systems. Thanks to the local population in Erstfeld On October [...] the last metres of rock in the branch-off construction of the Uri Underground Route Long in the Erstfeld-Amsteg section. The excavation and driving work in the Canton of Uri has thus come to an end after
announced delay of approximately one year relative to plan caused by fault zones cannot be made up. Now that construction has started at Erstfeld, The AlpTransit Gotthard Company expects the Gotthard Base [...] additional securing measures which made it impossible to achieve the planned rates of advance. On the Bodio section, a delay relative to plan was already announced by The AlpTransit Gotthard Company in the [...] as originally planned in 2005. Operation of the Gotthard Base Tunnel will start in 2015. To increase the rate of advance, improvements to the driving system of the TBM at Faido are planned. Modifications
Bodio/Pollegio took place. An information centre is also planned at the north portal of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Erstfeld. Construction is planned to start at the end of 2005, with opening in the spring
the last metres of rock between Erstfeld and Amsteg. By covering a distance of 7.2 kilometres in only 18 months the machine arrived in Amsteg half a year earlier than planned. At the construction site, Federal [...] 2007, the tunnel boring machine started driving southwards from Erstfeld. Eighteen months later, and half a year earlier than planned, the tunnel boring machine reached its destination at Amsteg. Breakthrough [...] the achievements on the construction of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. With the breakthrough between Erstfeld und Amsteg, the second-to-last of the total of five sections celebrated its breakthrough. Of the
Yesterday, half this amount had been excavated. Construction is therefore on schedule overall. Current plans are for first scheduled trains to travel through the Gotthard Base Tunnel at the end of 2015. Some [...] from 12 nations are currently working on the five construction sites of the Gotthard Base Tunnel at Erstfeld, Amsteg, Sedrun, Faido and Bodio. Construction of the world's longest rail tunnel began at Sedrun
